Depreciate Quote by Willis Polk

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

— Eric Hoffer

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

— Pericles

You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.

— Sailor Jerry

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time,…

— Peter Clewes

We write to taste life twice, first in the moment and second in retrospect

— Anais Nin

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

— Anais Nin

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

— Anais Nin

“Unknowing imitation is almost a recipe for bad design. If you don’t know where your ideas are coming from, you’re probably imitating an imitator.”

— Paul Graham

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

— Anonymous

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

— Herman Melville